School Official in Fukushima: Almost every night parents come to our temple crying about kid’s health problems — My own children are sick and have diseases [link to enenews.com]

Quoting: Waterbug

and further

"According to the Japanese media, “the Japanese government suspended 35 projects that were receiving money from the nation’s March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster reconstruction fund. Recently, it was discovered that portions of the reconstruction budget were going to causes completely unrelated to the disaster. As much as one quarter of the 11.7 trillion yen (approx. $148 billion) fund was being diverted to other projects. These included the construction of a contact lens factory in a another part of Japan, and $30 million even went to the nation’s controversial whale hunting program.”"

Quoting: Citizenperth

I don't normally get overly emotional but, this story makes me so angry. I am appalled that some of the money was redirected to the slathering of whales.